Two special mobile CCTV cameras were due to go up in Almondbury in January to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Kirklees Council decided to place the £8,000 cameras on Northgate, the main road through the village, which has been blighted by youths throwing stones, vandalising shop fronts and abusing shop staff and customers.

But two months on, one of the cameras hasn’t arrived, while the other is in the wrong place.

Clr Linda Wilkinson, who represents the area on Kirklees Council, is not happy. She said: “We were expecting the cameras at the beginning of the year. One of them has appeared but it’s in the wrong place.

“It was supposed to go on a tall lamppost at the top of Southfield Road but apparently there is a problem with that type of lamppost, so it’s been put at the top of Somerset Road instead.

“The camera is next to a tree, when the tree blooms, the camera will be obscured. The other camera hasn’t appeared yet and I’m a bit cross about it.”

The second camera was supposed to be installed either at the opposite end of Northgate or on the Highlands estate. Council officers also planned to fix brackets at other locations in the village so that the cameras can be moved if other areas experience trouble.

Clr Wilkinson said she has demanded answers for the delay. The Lib Dem said: “I’m chasing the relevant officer to pull their finger out but I haven’t heard anything recently. It’s not good enough at all. The cameras need to go up now because the vandalism is still going on.

“They would be a deterrent. I’m told they give a really clear image, they aren’t blurry like some CCTV cameras.”

In November the council’s Huddersfield South Area Committee spent £16,000 on the two cameras as part of a package of measures to cut anti-social behaviour in Almondbury.

Bushes were chopped down on the bank opposite the post office on Northgate to stop giving young people a place to hide and street lights were installed on the path running from the Highlands estate to Northgate.

Friday night football sessions were organised at Soccer City in Waterloo and a youth club for teenagers at the Wesley Centre, on Stocks Walk, was extended to cater for younger children.